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After seeing Dave Gorman tot up the fees for a "Product of the Year" contest, I'm very cynical: who says it is "Most sustainable and innovative domest...
Come now, Derek, but then the owners of the utility companies would not be sure that their fixed costs would be covered and you can't expect capitalis...
@saz as I understand it, flow rate is higher and more critical with heat pumps and a lot of microbore was installed badly, with sections shared betwee...
Swytch looks great for daytime fair-weather riders but it looks like it might not work for me or many other people who cycle for transport year-round ...
Where are you getting the liquid soap ingredients from and what recipe are you using, please? I'm currently using the little cif dilute-at-home refi...
@alec-morrow I can't completely agree with that. The Mitsubishi FTC6 is simply not smart enough yet for all homes. I'm not here to make the fine adjus...
@kev-m The graphs are from the OpenEnergyMonitor emoncms add-on app called "MMSPHeatPump" which was posted to their forums. The output from the defaul...
Yes, that seems to be what's happening. In this graph, blue is the power output the controller has worked out, red is what the pump actually uses and ...
That will teach me to read too fast! I'd been away and only just managed to pass that horrible insulting discriminatory "are you a human?" test (I kno...
Some settings like the weather compensation curve are behind a long-press on the menu key (so not the usual tap to open the menu) but do not require a...
In general, yes to all of the above. In particular, with a Mitsubishi ecodan, no, raising part of the curve does not always use more energy, because t...
The Mitsi unit I've got may be mediocre but it's heating my house, while @cathoderay's Midea isn't heating hers... but maybe the unit's worse while th...
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RE: Anyone concerned about GivEnergy?
Yes and no. Native controllers generally do a good jo...
By Majordennisbloodnok , 8 hours ago
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RE: A2A vs A2W: Which Heat Pump Would You Pick?
@temperature_gradient I've had air-to-air for just over...
By Anne Smith , 13 hours ago
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RE: Home automation and the cloud; is there a better way?
+1 It's not just cloud though. Many devices have repla...
By bobflux , 13 hours ago
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RE: End-of-Life Heat Pumps: How Do You Dispose of an ASHP in the UK?
We've started to document everything, and part 2 of the...
By Mars , 19 hours ago
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RE: Summer usage. Why is my Vaillant Aerotherm using so much energy on "heating"?
So the red bars are 'DHW' and the yellow bars 'heating'...
By JamesPa , 20 hours ago
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Its good kit the Midea and significantly cheaper, you w...
By ASHP-BOBBA , 23 hours ago
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RE: Indevolt Batteries UK Support & Info Thread
Have you tried cutting the grid feed to see what actual...
By JamesPa , 23 hours ago
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Contractors pack for inta antifreeze valves are around ...
By ASHP-BOBBA , 23 hours ago
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RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News
Critics and naysayers will be negative whatever the gov...
By JamesPa , 23 hours ago
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RE: Microbore heat pump installs
In principle you are almost certainly right, but in pra...
By JamesPa , 1 day ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions
@old_scientist We are a low mileage home, so bulk of ou...
By ChandyKris , 1 day ago
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There are just too many unknowns for me to comment on p...
By Transparent , 2 days ago
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RE: What is the main ‘dictator’ of Agile’s unit price?
@toodles I keep an eye on wholesale prices and energy m...
By ChandyKris , 2 days ago
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RE: Brand and installer questions for ASHP
Strange, perhaps it doesnt use modbus which the third p...
By JamesPa , 2 days ago
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RE: Upgrading my system, how far do I go?
For comparison, my PW3 with 11.04kW inverter, will char...
By Old_Scientist , 2 days ago
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RE: Changes to Tesla Powerwall Charging Regime?
Elon gate - legendary! I take my hat off to you @toodle...
By Old_Scientist , 2 days ago
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RE: Mitsubishi Ecodan not good enough ?
Thanks @goody, appreciate the feedback and sorry you ha...
By marcexec , 2 days ago
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RE: Minimum and Zero Disrupt Heat Pump Installations
True (first sentence) Thats the reason to consider th...
By JamesPa , 3 days ago
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RE: High air source heat pump running costs – Vaillant AroTherm Plus
Quite right. I was using a rough guesstimate of doublin...
By Majordennisbloodnok , 3 days ago
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RE: My Grant R290 9kW Heat Pump Installation
Again, really don't know how accurate this is! &nb...
By petch , 3 days ago
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RE: MCS Quality Audit – Has Anyone Had One? Did It Lead to Remediation?
@toodles The whole scheme is a shocking waste of money....
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RE: DIY or Don’t Touch? Solarman Smart Meter Install
Yes, and these guys would probably be my preferred inst...
By Batpred , 4 days ago
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RE: Hot water tank lose heat rapidly on random days
@jamespa Hopefully their reasons are well intended! ...
By Bash , 4 days ago
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RE: Ecoflow UK Support & Info Thread
As mentioned above, we’ve got our full review of the Ec...
By Mars , 4 days ago
